The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-08-12

q . very littls whils (bor. Z I expected
1eos ny Fellowshtp) tie boy became tn
0vor1ee Of the whole eollegs-wheee. q
eeuete and regulations 70 the contrary not
W~1tnseandtng. he was continually II M
eet-A sort Of chartered tiberHna. IL whos1
mvcr . lrnie1 Wefs RELAXED. The Offering,
made " his ehrins " . simply without
NUMBER. ana I had . serious difference al
epanion With one old resident fellow. now
long dead, who was usually supposed q
% the crustlest man In the untversity. and
g abhsr the sight Of . child. Ard VI 7
oiScovered, when . frequently recurring II
. sickness had forced Job to keep i strici
lookout that this u~np,incdpled IA Inau
was In the habit Of emitting the ny 70 BID
rooms and there feeding him upoG unlim.
tied quantities Of brindy.balls, and nav.
Ing him promise to say nothing about Il.
JOB told him he had ought to b ashamed
q himself, "at his ago, too. when he MIGHT
have beena grandfather IL he had done
what was right" by which Job under
stood had got married, and thence aroea
the row.
The child grow into the boy, and the boy
INTO Q young man, ~ n By ons the r.
motseless years new BY. and II he grew
and increased, % did his beauty and the
!neauty OF his mind grow with him. When
be wa about fifteen they used to call him
Beauty about the college, and me they
ntcknamed the Beast Beauty and the
Beast wa what they called us whom We
went out walking together, as wa used to
every day. Once Leo attacked . great
strapptnt butcher's-man, twice his sra.
because hc sung II out after NJ, and
ehrashed him, too-thrashed him fairly. I
walked on and pretended not to rec. TIL
the combat got too exciting, when Turned
round and theered him on to victory. Il
wa the char Of the college at the time.
outI could not help It. Then when be
Q little older the undergraduates rot
fresh names for N. They called mo Char
on, and Lee the Greek god. / will pass
ovet my own appellation with the humble
remark that I wa never handsome. and
did not grow more 90 a I grew older. Az
for his, there was no doubt about his At
Leo at twenty-one might have stood
for . statue Of Apollo. never saw any
body to touch him in looks, or anybody 10
absolutely unconscious Of them. Al for
his mind, he was brilliant and keen.witted.
but not q scholar. He had not the dullness
necessary for that result. We followed
out mis- father's instructions q regards hi
education strictly enough, and ON the
the results, especially 20 tar a. the
Greek and Arabic went, were satisfactory.
I learned the latter language in order to
help to teach it to him, but after five years
Of it he knew it as well as I did-almost Is
well - the professor who instructed m
both. 1 always was q great sportsman-
I'D IA nv ma 0Qc1nn-onA an,nS<rv As~kS~-A
we went away somewhere shooting or fsh.
sometimes to Scotland, sometimes to
Norway, once ven to Russia. lam q good
shot, but even in this he learned to excel
me. When Leo wa eighteen I moved
back into my rooms, and entered him at
my own college, and at twenty-one he took
bis degree-a respectable degree, but not q
very high one. Then 1t was that /, for the
nrst time, told him something Of his OF
story, and Of the mystery that log led
ahead. OF course he was very cf ious
about 1t, and of course I explaineds-o him
that his curiosity could not be gIitifed at
present. After that, topass thu lime away.
I suggested that he should get himself
called to the bar; and this b lid, reading
at Cambridge, and only g fug up to Lon.
don to eat his dinners.
/ had only one trQphf. about him. and
that was thnt every young woman who
across him, or, If not every one, near-
lv1o You'd insist on fallinr 4. - with
him. Hence arose difficulties which Ineed |
not enter into here. though they were
troublesome enough at the time. On the
whole, he behaved fairly well; / can't gay
more than that.
And 90 the time went by, till at last hs
reached his twenty-ifth birthday, at (which
date this strange, and in some q ysawful.
really begins.